A mericair Yavisk Periodical Carter CLIFTON ARNIM - CINCINNATI 10, 01110 AlEvention;AwhifokorsICIL Jewish Types in American Fiction By Elbert Aidline-Trommer. IKE Maude, like ,Iew" good paraphrase ot the L LIKE old samtm4. "3Yie es ehriarh sieh, :tuck fin deli I 1;1 ; et this in- stance I veould interior, I hu saying their like ot th•like and their views and action , Bill regard to int,-rmar- rge. if all Ltimpean ,•tatittries, the Rus- min Jem 11.1- to, 11 more frequently' and more ably ft 1,1 111 his that Anwrica bring a \ 011144 111111t1 , toinirm II ramie than in :tom- ittlo.r it, general literature in Me English itinguagt is voting and, consequently, 1:m11..1114i f..1 .4 1 t) weighty and snit- ht . hod JeS, not rich in Jem,, , 11 types. lure , 4 , •4411 11 .rite With has 'aunt& ficiug v iten,: has its good pitillts tieighlli.1• , fur e, Muria. and it ,s.is Well disadvantagef, particularly II it i- a country that happens to lie only itioneal Mat the strongly le:dis- my til- Ilat-sian lilt t.ittire should turn its enjoy ing Ihe sprung of life. mind, a young country is like an over- .iltrimon to die lem•i•li problem, to grown boy, still in knickerbockers, the 1,1.11111114 het SVVell Jew and Gen- .1114I there is hardly a Russian ,et with a craving, in every fibre of -hurl ‘1,,rm • or play m rcllen his sIr011ga Munitions I.1 lug for the donne the last twenty t,r thirty years lung trousers of an adult. Our litera- ture, has 11111 y r I (wit,. left that 11,,, s 1101 portray one or mere eli irat ler,. II is also worthy the garb of youth, nor donned the raiment of mature age. In mint ot nine Mal not only have these char- marts be .1, Meted by words, our literature and especially our fiction are still in a stage of adol- slaw m•rit, -. Inn that even a larger ?tomb, al, to Le found in the ,,•01 - 1, escence. ,.1 mi-lt anchor.. And aflole•crIll, i• the &Angel- 111H Comic Element. transition age, dangerous ,In .1,011,0 Th. it \visit Ipa- in mvhich ala•. of its \ .ii•tion is quite di It's lie- 11, ter' Iii , 141 111, t 191 Ill IirsIoil- it I That i- mh, American heti., 1,- 111,11 . 1 , ton bal , 11 rii kurolie st l i morks of con , n , m , II , t 1Y 111 a 1.1, III y I gam to lie Mc. ib.' I lasting lane ntain ven :I mialler r, ,,I mbiert , ti II;old .,1 nr.t Kopf.' Lion of mymilimItile novel • or America. of hilarious tilt rImninent stories dealinL, dirted, or indirectly kitirker• like Ill a tot irromn hom i with Jewish life. canal 11111 111 le for the sold General Survey. of thc, it4iSt iiitier•. for Ili, II, astir, go i n g I hal la \ ni l that is MI), lit in hid , l 11 in tLecr hearts, ;11141 ahead, it would be well to 01rVey the sa‘s null Po 1.i/arie, the rifliculf,tis, JeWish silnal ion, it stud, 11 may be tin ontlandol, tallier, the differ- I t , 1 , 1 ,. „ p i a . ent 1 otteg saw illy the termed, in this t amiltr, ion, Jewish lit,. In Ittericit fie, tee Ma-- and habit. of the tit tt began only with the em11111,11,, mem mma and .11 1 4i111:11,1, 111“111 • 11 , e tf 11,, , comic ele• thent o.1 It It, 1, if a large scale imnogration omit im Eastern and, partly, Central !boom. me it, .11.1 lon g , idol yes- 1,I t tali, I do not mean to implm Mat III re had not been Jew's ,vortMmillile in 1 rd.., , pmenrato became the artictt- ,,,,- ,,f 1,,, no - tan , wr toll:) ;I ntl he knierira before the sixth ., or seVen. • 144 i411114111 • of Ili , :11110011i tics of the Iasi century, bill I do pur- k, I W. II, ma- hir•t to write :Mont port to say that Up to that period WWI hot,-, I dr, ;oil, and longings, of III I, its in America hat bean stall iu 111.11111a I's although by 1141 hp 11,41-11.1. , and struggles, of the ‘'s it It and mom roti. stifferings on u 111, insignilitani in the r ond he nem sod. 'To the, pi rim! belong t,. and of a Imp, more ur les• a-dimilable. It ma. only the ad- ihe e arlier ...mi..- of .\ braliam Callan anil a t W ono rs whose Very limits 'Cut of the later (1.y immigrant from of our Russia Poland, Roumania and Ga- I a,. slink into ;the licia that the Jem t-li finest - ton, at least , minultnetp, rut-long existence. Leav- in -ant the ilitesti011 from a literarm• point Hi Niel,. begat, ing ow tor dm in Allieriea. do Jewish tines- of Cal iii to Ito in these works, tiun, the most important aspect of , Mere is not the slightest doubt that it, is the problem of holy the Jew gets otimigritnts gave of the very es- along with his tient Ile neighbors,: •enet , of their hearts and souls to T., ■ their attitude toward one another, 1 their new country. and it is equally true that their works were but lade appreciated by their contemporari, Again, the boy in short trouser- m 1 .• 101 illtclested to find out what ma, going on in the deepest recesses of the souls of these aliens ann strang• Self-Expression. Vet, the thirst for self - expression on Me part of the ur werimers could not be suppressed :old after a short interval, found once more its tray into print, This was the NCCOIld 1 4 , rim!, the period of "Rbii, Pagliaccio," m lien the immigrant, with aching and bleeding Mart, put on a cline', mask and began If, delight hi, ;twit- ence with all sorts of tunny antics. It was then that match-maker °munch, his confrere KeidansIfy and la-t, but not least, our friends Potash and Perlmutter made their appear- an I. This move was indeed a site' least insofar its the material mt II-being of the authors was con- y, riled It t an old story that chil- dren -Imo, eiatt. a circus permorniane,- 11111,I1 111111) I 11.111 "Hamlet" or mill "Tu. 11111 Night " And so, pseudo- Ibr coniiml 1,mi-1i rcpt* became 4. III rirait fiction and gained popularita math all classes of gr, lr• hl ore years p' ell. and American Like every fiction look a nett; Itwn. thing el, from Ettiampe, realism was in rt at•Iiiiq; this vountry; also fat, 1',11 it did and has been wendine it ma, to iht .Naintrican iv:fder slow ly '1111'1, during the last decade Robinson-Cohen Co. rnericu s Finest Furniture '. Corner of High at Hastings THE STANDARD TRADE-ACCEPTANS PLAN • rite of. siamsee t erip 208 -210 GRISWOLD ST. Illlllllllllllllllllllllllllllllli HAVE YOU VISITED THE Cass-Woodward Market] Its outstanding features arc CLEANLINESS - QUALITY - SERVICE I as a part of the Cass - Woodward Market am here to please Y111 1. I carry a full line ,of Kosher Delicatessen My prime object is to establish myself in your favor by giving you all that CLEANLINESS, QUALITY and SERVICE stand for. IMPORTED FISH AND PICKLES. My Wieners are Delicious. LOUIS ALPER STALL 34 STALL 34 WOODWARD AT HENDRIE EDMUND G. 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